Machin v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1431 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Lindsey v. Smith (1987), Plotts v. State (1988)
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chambers v. Mississippi · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Hudson v. Palmer
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he federal courts must defer to a state court's interpretation of its own rules of evidence and procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Tl Morris“material in the sense of a crucial, critical, highly significant factor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCafferty v. Solem
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.